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Example sentences for "certain person"

  • Among other instances it is recorded that a certain person of his diocess, named Gallus, had forsaken his wife and withdrawn to Clermont.

  • Saint Arsenius being asked by a certain person what he must do to deliver himself from a troublesome temptation of impure thoughts, the saint gave him this answer,--“What did the Midianites do?

  • Sometimes again this hindrance arises on the part of others, as when scandal results from a certain person being in authority: for the Apostle says (1 Cor.

  • He naturally loves a certain person, on my account; and acts solely for a certain person's good.

  • Reply of the Count de Florida Blanca, regretting that he must still wait the arrival of a certain person.

  • Answer of the Count to the preceding, desiring a delay till the arrival of a certain person.

  • He was forthwith recognized, however, by a certain person, and cast into prison.

  • I had, besides, been reminded that there was a certain person at Worms, sent by the Dauphin, who makes many promises.

  • A woman avoids being a coquette if she steadfastly loves a certain person, but she is not thought sane if she persists in a bad choice.

  • I am extremely unnesi by the accident that has hapened to a Certain person.

  • At the very beginning of an interval a "certain person," Polina Nikolaevna Razsudin, quite unexpectedly passed by him.

  • While it's a secret, don't say anything to a 'certain person.

  • Now when this mighty great matter befel me, I said to myself, 'Ho certain person, there remaineth upon this good luck no better luck; and haply there will befal thee somewhat contrary to this.

  • I should have been there this Spring, only that a certain person, who chooses to think that his claims on me are stronger than those of any other person, wishes me to go elsewhere.

  • I asked you, to see a certain person on my behalf, and you have not done so.

  • I am on the lookout for a certain person; I saw him two days ago, but at sight of me he ran like a thief; I couldn't catch him, but I shall sooner or later!

  • It isn't an address, but a certain person whom I would like to obtain some information about; in fact, to find out something that interests me very deeply.

  • In return for exercising this right in favor of a certain person, they usually stipulated that such person shall maintain them as long as they live and otherwise care for them.

  • M400) We have a large number of documents which make reference to the aplûtu of a certain person, which we can render here by “heritage.

  • In another case where a child is adopted a certain person is expressly said to be his brother.

  • About fifteen minutes earlier she had entered the room where her father and mother were talking, just as the former said, "As a certain person is abroad I see no objection to your spending the winter here if you wish.

  • But what put it into your head to think of a certain person?

  • There were some things her father evidently did not care to talk about, and one of these was a mysterious individual known as a Certain Person.

  • There was silence for a long time, then she asked, "Mother, aren't you glad a certain person is abroad?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain branches; certain depth; certain destruction; certain distances; certain evening; certain fixed; certain fungi; certain height; certain kinds; certain lines; certain natural; certain quantity; certain races; certain rules; certain special; certain standard; certain substances; certain that; certain tree; certain village; certainly would; great social; healed them; our church; past life; proper consistency